Thornbury World of Learning
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Thornbury World of Learning Centre overview
About Thornbury World of Learning Long Daycare and Kindergarten
Welcome to Thornbury World of Learning. We're ideally located for families in Thornbury, Northcote, Preston, Fairfield,Bellfield, Brunswick East, Ivanhoe, Coburg and Brunswick.
Our Long Daycare and Kindergarten Centre provides early education and care for children aged 6 weeks to 6 years.
We provide convenient, full care coverage from 9hr, 10hr or full days, 5 days per week, including school holidays.
Our dedicated, multicultural and longstanding team of Teachers and Educators provide a safe, nurturing, and inspiring learning environment - where your child can thrive, and be their wonderful self, every day.
Getting school ready? We offer the Government-approved Kindergarten program that helps ensure your child has a successful transition to formal schooling.
We offer a great variety of learning experiences at our Centre including:
- Sustainability Program: Helps children develop and understand the importance of embedding sustainable practices into everyday life. Children learn about recycling, conserving water, growing food and the importance of protecting our planet.
- Sports Program: Allows the children to be active and learn about different sports and movements.
- Community Engagement Program: Encourages children to interact with and discover their local community. We often have visits from community services, and we go out on adventures to teach the children about their local environment.
- Music & Movement Program: Designed to develop fundamental skills that help support children’s self-regulation, memory, and concentration. Children learn to appreciate and develop an understanding of music - and of course, have fun.
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Kindergarten/Preschool Programs
Kindergarten/Preschool Programs
Our centre offers the VIC Government-approved ‘Best Start, Best Life’ Kindergarten Program.
At World of Learning, your child will benefit from the VIC ‘Best Start, Best Life’ Government-approved program as part of our enhanced learning program. Our program will support your child’s learning, development, and well-being for now, at school and beyond. We tailor our Kindergarten program across:
- Numeracy
- Literacy
- Emotional and Social Development
- Self regulation
- Healthy minds and bodies
The added benefits of our Kindergarten program include:
- VIC ‘Best Start, Best Life’ Government-approved program
- Extended opening hours
- Open all year round (excl public holidays)
- Programs developed and delivered by our Early Childhood Teachers
- Exclusive music and movement program for self-regulation
About the Curriculum
About the Curriculum
“Let the child be the scriptwriter, director and the actor in their own play” - Magda Gerber
Nursery Space: 6 weeks – 2 years
Learning starts from before birth, and our Educators have created a welcoming and nurturing nursery environment where each baby feels safe to explore and discover new things - through their senses, their communication and cues (body language, facial expression and sounds) and by experimenting. On any given day you can see the nursery children engaging in all types of play, water play, music time, story time and more. Every day provides a brand new, exciting adventure for our babies to support their development, learning and wellbeing!
Toddler Space: 2 - 3 years
Our teachers and educators encourage the children to learn through play to help enhance their sensory-motor development. This happens through carefully planned music, dance, games and reading experiences.
On any given day the Toddler children can be seen developing their numeracy by building a tower, sorting objects, pointing and identifying shapes and patterns and participating in counting songs and games.
Children in our toddler space are encouraged to participate in group play. Group play is important as it helps our toddlers develop important social skills such as, turn taking, developing self confidence and emotional self regulation. Our team helps children through talking, planning and role modelling.
Kindergarten Space: 3 – 6 years
Kindergarten is a unique time for learning with peers and developing skills for later learning including confidence and curiosity, important skills for starting school. Our play-based program encourages active engagement in learning and supports a range of positive developmental outcomes including resilience, independence, critical thinking and creativity.
The oral language supports literacy learning. A child’s oral language ability is the best predictor for later success in learning to read and write. Hearing the sounds within a language is the first critical step for all literacy learning. Our team supports our Kindergarten children's development by engaging in rich discussions, introducing new vocabulary as part of everyday conversations, as well as singing, playing games, and reading with the children daily.
Throughout the Kindergarten year,children use their language to share ideas, ask questions, express themselves, and connect with peers and adults in social settings.
Social-emotional skills, including the ability to self-regulate emotions, is supported through group learning environments. Our team supports each child’s social and emotional development by labelling and talking about emotions and supporting appropriate responses as together, they engage in new and challenging situations. Lastly, ensuring that all children are ready for the ‘big school’ by preparing them for all that ‘big school’ has to offer.
Morning
Anita is 11 months old and enjoys sensory play outside in the sandpit with her friends. She sits near her educator who helps teach her how to scoop the sand into the bucket. Anita is learning how to dig, carry, and move the sand. She is also exploring texture and learning what happens to the sand when she adds water!
Lunch
Anita has finished her lunch and is preparing to take a nap. Her educator changes her nappy, prepares a bottle and reads Anita a story before her afternoon sleep.
Afternoon
Anita and some of her nursery friends enjoy some story time and songs outside in the shaded garden. They read ‘Peepo’ which is Anita’s favourite book.
Morning
Luca is two and a half years old and loves to start his day at the centre outside on the climbing equipment. His friends join him, and together they pretend to be pirates on a ship looking for treasure. Through this exciting dramatic play, Luca is learning about himself and the world around him. Dramatic play is helping Luca identify his interests, abilities, likes and dislikes.
Lunch
Luca is watering the vegetables in the garden. By doing this, Luca is learning the importance of growing and caring for the veggies in the garden. Luca picks a tomato from the garden, which the Chef will use to help make Luca and his friend’s lunch - Spaghetti Bolognese!
Afternoon
Luca enjoys art, and today he is painting a beach scene from a recent family holiday. He adds the finishing touches and sets the painting aside to dry; so that he can take it home to share with his family.
While painting, Luca is learning how to express himself creatively and how to convey his ideas and emotions. Painting is also helping develop Luca’s hand eye coordination, finger, wrist and hand strength. Making marks on paper is important for self expression as well as later learning.
Morning
Ava is almost five years old and can’t wait for today’s carpentry experience - she loves building things! Carpentry experiences allow Ava and her friends to extend their learning through real-life experiences. While participating in carpentry, Ava is learning to problem solve, experiment and predict. She is also improving her hand eye coordination, manipulative skills and muscular strength.
Lunch
Before Ava sits down for lunch with her friends and educators, Ava takes part in the centre’s sports program. Ava loves sports. Sports helps Ava improve her flexibility and strength (perfect for growing bodies!). Sports also allows her to practice different skills in a fun and engaging way.
Afternoon
Ava is off to ‘big school’ next year and she can't wait to start! Ava and her friends will be visiting the local primary school next week. In preparation for the visit, the class is creating a list of questions to ask the Principal and school children.
Health and Nutrition
Health and Nutrition
Our centre chef prepares and cooks healthy and nutritious meals daily, catering to the unique dietary requirements of every child. We believe that by encouraging active participation (such as growing their own fruit and vegetables, preparing, and finally cooking!) children learn to appreciate and understand the importance of healthy eating.
Our centre offers children nutrient-rich, unprocessed, and seasonal whole foods – created to delight the fussiest eaters.
Meet the team
Meet the team
Hi my name is Sharyn and I am the Centre Manager here at Thornbury World of Learning. I began my career in early childhood education and care in 1993 and started working at Thornbury World of Learning in 2007. I hold a Diploma in Children’s Services and am trained in Child Protection and First Aid.
I have always wanted to work with children in an educational setting to provide children with every opportunity to grow and develop into their own person. I am very passionate about providing an environment where children can feel safe, secure, loved and supported to foster their development.
We understand that parents need a place where they can drop off their precious children to people that genuinely care about them and will help them in those crucial first five years of their learning journey, many people influence a child’s learning and development. All children have in built curiosity and potential, our role is to help the children to achieve their milestones during their time with us at Thornbury World of Learning.
We have long-serving, multicultural team members who reflect our local community. Many have been with the centre for over 10 years. We are a centre where everyone knows all the children, no matter which room they are in. We are such a close-knit team it feels like one big family. We are a very passionate team who believe that it is incredibly important to help children establish the building blocks for a successful lifetime of learning.
We feel that the health and safety of a child is so important and always ensure within our day to day practices that a child’s health and safety is never compromised. We as a team ensure that all children are protected at all times and feel safe and secure.
Our centre is a home away from home providing a warm homely feel within our room environments. We work in partnership with our families to ensure this is the case, understanding each child’s individual needs.
It is extremely important that our families have trust in us to care for their children, we believe that building strong relationships with our families is a huge part when a new family commences at the centre. We encourage our families to attend 3-4 orientation visits prior to commencement and also offer to extend visits if our families would like further visits. We encourage our families to check in at any time of the day if they wish to.
We encourage our families to participate and attend our incursions and excursions and engage in our family celebrations such as our Christmas and Easter BBQ’s and family celebration days throughout the year to bring our local community together.
As many of our team have children of their own and have been through the enrolment process, they are able to assist our new families in this process as well. We are here to help our families from supporting your enrolment process to providing tips when your child is orientating into the centre.
A fun fact about me is that I have a little puppy called Tess who loves to chew on socks!
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Centre Reviews
the team and Management are icredible, my children are so happy they dont want to come home after each day of care!! the team and Management are icredible, my children are so happy they dont want to come home after each day of care!!
Our daughter is thriving at TWOL. The educators are wonderful and very skilled at what they do. Our daughter is thriving at TWOL. The educators are wonderful and very skilled at what they do.
We’ve been loving having our little miss go here! The staff is so caring and loving and a very low turnover which makes me... We’ve been loving having our little miss go here! The staff is so caring and loving and a very low turnover which makes me think they look after their people. We’ve looked at other centres in the area and nothing compares to the care here. Read more
Dear Tess, thanks for leaving us such a wonderful review. We are thrilled that you loved your experience; our staff will definitely be happy to read what you wrote. We put customer experience and satisfaction as our priority, and your review reaffirms the hard work we put in every day. Kind regards, The World of Learning Team.